I thought, give it a few months and I will also want to grab the girl by the hair because she spoke to my boyfriend. I assumed it would happen to me too, that I would develop these feelings, but I wasn't going to encourage them because, observing other girls, it looked like a lot of effort. But that backfired because when I did join a single sex school, the girls were riled up all the time, feeling deprived of boys. It made me want to go to an all-girls secondary school because I had a theory that if you got rid of the problem of boys, the girls wouldn't care about dating or sex. I remember the girls were always fighting over the boys. I noticed that I wasn’t feeling the same. We’d chase boys around the playground and, while I’d do it for fun, for the other girls, it turned more into chasing boys because they had crushes on them. I first realised I wasn’t interested in sex or romance when I was 11 – at the time everyone around me realised they were. She has never had sex and never wants to date or have a romantic relationship. Yasmin Benoit, 26, is a model and asexual activist. Asexual and proud: Model and activist Yasmin Benoit isn't interested in having sex or being in a relationship.
